Silver Dollar Road | movie | 2023 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after  | dG1fN2JhWTBLbnQ5VGc

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:10 Growing up in Beaufort, we really didn't have access to the area for swimming.

00:16 [MUSIC]

00:20 And so my dad, he would always take us to Merman.

00:23 We didn't refer to it as Merman then.

00:26 We referred to it as Silver Dollar.

00:28 And most of the people around here went down to the Silver Dollar.

00:35 And they were a welcoming community.

00:38 And most of the time, you didn't have whites coming in to that community.

00:45 So that was important.

00:48 And so you did feel safe.

00:51 [WATER LAPPING]

00:55 It was just the one place you could go,

00:58 and you wasn't worried about being targeted by the law.

01:03 And you didn't have to feel like you were being harassed.

01:10 You could just relax.

01:12 [MUSIC]

01:35 Uncle I. Curtis, just a humble person.

01:38 So Uncle I. Curtis was always a brick mason.

01:41 He worked with his hands.

01:43 He's very lovable.

01:44 He likes to sing.

01:46 He likes to hum.

01:47 He likes to eat.

01:50 He's just that uncle that everybody loves.

01:55 Me and La Curtis were close.

01:57 We grew up in the house together.

01:59 So we did a lot of things together, like party.

02:03 [MUSIC]

02:07 I don't know who told him he could dance.

02:10 He couldn't dance.

02:13 He just had this happy go--he was just a happy-go-lucky person.

02:17 He loved people, and he would laugh and joke.

02:21 And so he was the person to really have a good time with.

02:26 [MUSIC]

02:31 First time I heard about Fantasy Island, I was like, where is Fantasy Island?

02:36 I heard it on the radio.

02:38 Later on in the announcement, they said down in Murman.

02:42 I said, down in Murman?

02:44 And they said, to the old Silver Dollar.

02:47 And I said, oh, goodness, they talking about--and then that's when I started asking around about it.

02:52 And they said, yeah, they opened up a little club down there.

02:55 And Melvin was running, and it was called--and people were coming.

02:59 [MUSIC]

03:04 Every season was something different.

03:06 One year we had the Soul Train.

03:08 We had the train painted on the floor with the tracks, and then you go down the Soul Train line.

03:16 I remember a lot of the Marines from Cherry Point would come down here.

03:20 [MUSIC]

03:23 Oh, we had a party, buddy, from all the way around, all the way from Little City come down and join us.

03:29 We were black and white.

03:31 And, you know, every weekend, jam.

03:34 [MUSIC]

03:42 We had a guy come in here with the Greyhound bus and DJ.

03:45 And then he'd come in there with that DJ.

03:49 The people followed the bus behind him and lowered this beach up.

03:55 I would get different groups to come in and play on the beach.

03:58 And we just had fun.

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04:10 [MUSIC]

04:13 (upbeat music)

Silver Dollar Road | movie | 2023 | Official Clip

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